4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (862+ words) A prevention strategy that public health agencies have promoted since 2023 has stopped working against gonorrhea in Southern California, according to a new observational study of more than 26,000 patients. Effectiveness fell from 42.3 percent in early 2023 to negative 15 percent by the end…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (970+ words) An investigational drug for advanced multiple myeloma met both of its primary endpoints in a late-stage trial, producing responses in 74 percent of patients whose disease had already resisted three major classes of treatment. Patients receiving standard available therapies responded at…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago   (893+ words) About 16,000 height-adjustable ergonomic office chairs sold online through several major retailers have been recalled because the backrest can detach while someone is sitting in it. Bureau Office, Inc., the New York company that does business as Branch and imports the…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (568+ words) It was a fish bone. Roughly 3 centimeters of it, lodged at the pelvic floor with one end in the rectal wall, the other pushed through the bladder muscle, and one side embedded in the outer layer of the uterus. The…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago   (790+ words) For 17 years, scientists deliberately added sulfuric acid to a remote Ontario lake to recreate the effects of acid rain. The experiment was designed to answer a straightforward question: What happens to an entire freshwater ecosystem when its water becomes increasingly…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (766+ words) Cardiovascular disease is the leading medical cause of duty-related deaths among firefighters, police officers, military personnel, emergency medical responders, astronauts, and pilots, and until now clinicians treating them have had no comprehensive guidance built for their circumstances. An estimated 4 million…...

20+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1067+ words) Nursing home residents who received an RSV vaccine were 73 percent less likely to be hospitalized with the virus and 56 percent less likely to die from it, according to a study of nearly 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries published this week in JAMA Internal…...

19+ hour, 20+ min ago   (868+ words) Children who received at least one dose of rotavirus vaccine were about 76 percent less likely to die from rotavirus-positive gastroenteritis, according to an analysis spanning 22 countries that researchers describe as the first to calculate the vaccine's effectiveness against death from…...

5+ hour, 32+ min ago   (747+ words) Two people in the United States with normally functioning immune systems developed chronic lumps under the skin of their elbows, and the cause turned out to be a genus of fungus that ordinarily spends its life decaying dead wood. Both…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (802+ words) A mother in northeastern Ethiopia pulled the socks off her 23-day-old son and found one toe swollen, dusky, and grooved. There was no injury, no insect bite, and nothing in his history to explain it. The cause was a single…...